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Melbourne-based concert promoter Mary Mihelakos wears a cowboy shirt with embroidered red roses that match her bright lipstick and blonde bouffant

How Booking Maven Mary Mihelakos Became Melbourne Rock Royalty

One woman who knows there is no other endeavour so addictive and enthralling as music is...

Cat Woods

PREMIEREHeather Thomas is "Waitin' on the Times to Change" While Quarantined in Austin

Seattle-based drummer and singer-songwriter Heather Thomas had grand plans for 2020. After releasing her sophomore EP Open Up last year, Thomas hit the road, planning a nearly year-long journey with the intention of spending each month in a different city, exploring different music scenes and...

Alexa Peters

PREMIEREMadame Gandhi Shares "See Me Thru" Remix

Known by her stage name Madame Gandhi, she spoke with Audiofemme earlier this...

Annie White

RSVP HEREMamalarky Play Bootleg Theater + MORE

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE: LA Edition– your source for the best shows and interviews with some of our favorite local live bands. For the month of February we will be featuring LA shows! Mamalarky are fuzzy jazzy indie darlings who relocated from Austin to Los...

Tarra Thiessen

NEWS ROUNDUPSXSW 2019 is in Full Swing, New Music, and MORE

CHAI are the buzziest band at this year's SXSW. SXSW Takes Over Austin It's been a bit of a slow news week, with what seems like 9/10ths of the music industry in Austin for South by Southwest. If you haven't been, it's not structured like a traditional festival, with bands scheduled to play certain...

Lindsey Rhoades

ONLY NOISEA Case of SXSW - James Blake Instigated My Sneaky Crimes in a Changing Austin

All images courtesy Katie Wojciechowski. ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Katie Wojciechowski relives the SXSW she spent sneaking around to see James Blake in 2011, before she - and her hometown of...

Katie Wojciechowski

PLAYING ATLANTASister Moon Talks Songwriting, Star Trek, and Bacon Chips

Ashley Rivera, the frontwoman and creative force behind Atanta's Southern gothic-blues group, Sister Moon, weaves a dark mystique throughout her music, eerie melodies set against a heavy sonic landscape. It's Southern gothic at its finest: a crumbling mansion in the light of a full moon, Spanish...

Luci Turner

PREMIEREHome Body Subvert Heteronormativity in "DNA" Video

Health, wealth, career, marriage, home ownership, children: these are the mile markers of the crumbling American Dream. It's up to the newest generations to question, break down, and reorganize these pillars into...

Ashley Prillaman

NEWS ROUNDUPSt. Vincent Producing Sleater-Kinney LP, Woodstock Returns, and More

sleater-kinney and st. vincent, hollywood, ca, jan 2019. photograph by jonny cournoyer New Year, New Music By Lindsey Rhoades Sleater-Kinney is in the Studio... Producing an Album with St. Vincent If this tweet didn't warm your riot grrl heart, we don't know what will. Though details are scant (no...

Lindsey Rhoades

SXSW 2018Rock or Die V with Little Dickman Records

Chris and Amy Dickman of Jersey Shore Indie label Little Dickman Records have been taking good care of bands in Austin for five years now. Their unofficial events showcase badass touring bands from all over the country as well as the bands with releases on their label. We talked to them about how...

Tarra Thiessen

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INTERVIEWAlice Ivy Talks Dreamy Debut Ahead of SXSW

Her debut record I'm Dreaming is a surreal pool party, hazy with liquor and puffs of the finer stuff - its collaged snippets could easily invite...

Ashley Prillaman

CHECK THE SPREADSHEETSurviving SXSW

I’ve been called a masochist for going to Austin, TX's South By South West festival so many years in a row. SXSW 2018 will be my eighth return trip and this year I’ll be an official artist with all three of my projects - Sharkmuffin, Ex-Girlfriends and Kino Kimino - totaling 17 sets in five days....

Tarra Thiessen